Research Article

Semidigital PLL Design for Low-Cost Low-Power Clock Generation

Table 2

Measured performance summary [14].

Process0.18 μm CMOS
Supply Voltage1.8 V for analog, 1.5 V for digital
Power consumptionTotal: 16.8 mW
(Analog: 11.9 mW, Digital: 4.9 mW)
Occupied area Active area: ~0.6 mm2 (LPF < 0.04 mm2)
VCO tuning range 790–925 MHz
Reference clock 30 MHz
Reference spur <−52 dBc
Phase noise <−81 dBc/Hz
Integrated RMS noise100 kHz~100 MHz: 12.6°rms
10 MHz~100 MHz: 1.1°rms